Is it unproffessional to use either photobucket or youtube as a photo gallery on your website. I'm torn I need a gallery to show my portfolio but I don't know how I should do it while still being proffessional clean cut. Argh any help is appreciated.

I think these can be used to supplement your business, help with SEO, and such like that.  But for actual client presentationor a professional portfolio, yeah, not professional.  There are a lot of free ways to do this.  I started out with a simple HTML site with SimpleViewer galleries.  Buy a domain, get a hosting account, and a simple template, such as a Winklet or a FlashPalette.

Do a search on the board for gallery or websites or templates, and you will find all kinds of info.

I have a website and I have a seperate company that I use for client gallery's www.photoreflect.com aka express digital and I like it alot i downloaded simpleviewer about an hour ago and boy am I confused.

I also like the simpleviewer design getting it to work well yeah self explainatory

Oopps sorry I meant that i can't get it to work and the facial expression shows that oopps on my end yeah I'm totally clueless and tired it's 12:43 am here and this is my 5th marathon night up.

I use The Gallery over at http://www.outdooreyes.com/aboutgallery.php3

I paid a one time fee of $50 for Lifetime Membership (special may still be on, check).

Up to 60 images at a time, easy to use and lots of basic features.

-Koa-

Update: I just checked and the Lifetime Membership (one time payment) is back up to $69. Still a bargain!

 I use www.webgallerywizard.com for my portfolio.

Instructions for using SimpleViewer can be found here: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/instruct.html

and Troubleshooting here: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/faq.html

I use SimpleViewer on my website, but I also have a Photobucket account. That's where I put images for my clients' use on MySpace or their websites. I shoot my kids' sports games and don't sell those, but I also put them on my Photobucket account (watermarked with my website address). I have gotten quite a few new clients who were nosy and looked at the rest of my Photobucket albums instead of just the one I sent them to. Hmmmm, did I consider they might look at other albums?